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Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi recently said Iraqi troops could deploy into Syria to protect Iraq from threats across its borders. Iraq keeps reinforcements along its frontier to guard against infiltration by IS militants, who hold a pocket of territory along the Euphrates River. Trump campaigned for office on ...
Hareth Mohammed: Yes, it's very dangerous. No -- not anyone can talk about that. Jane Ferguson: When the Sunni extremists of ISIS swept across Iraq in 2014, they easily overran the Iraqi army. Shia religious leaders called on young men to join militias, often funded by Iran, to fight against ...
... cycle of flow, biodiversity, floods, you know, this renewal of fertility of the soil. Jane Ferguson: Already, farmers are being driven from the land in Iraq. In the northern province of Nineveh, wheat farmers struggle to keep their crops alive in parched, dry earth. Farmer Sami Yessi says his wheat ...
... the Kurdish city of Suleimania. DLER GHAZI: The presence of ISIS in our area is because of the security vacuum between us, the government of Iraqi Kurdistan, and the government of Iraq. And in addition there’s a political crisis between us that has allowed such groups to spring up ...
... stay at another house, but still I feel afraid. I fear for my family. I put my family in danger because I cooperated with the Iraqi army. SIMONA FOLTYN: Many civilians around Hawija have resigned themselves to once again living under ISIS. They no longer have faith in their own ...
... to fight ISIS, but Ghazi claims that in Suleimania Province at least, they haven’t carried out a single joint operation. Dler Ghazi: if the Iraqi government does an operation today, they only inform us. They don’t invite us to work together. The Iraqi government has completed two operations ...
The protests began in June, tapered off, then restarted Monday after a surge in water poisoning cases. Iraq's government has scrambled to meet the growing demand for public services and jobs, but has been hindered by years of endemic corruption and a financial crisis fueled by diminished oil revenues ...
We're not going to be able to make Iraqi or Afghan security forces in a few short years and have them be competent. You don't make an army in a few years, and we tried to if both countries and these units have not faired well, and they ...
... identifying and returning looted antiquities to Iraq." "Such collaboration between Iraq and the United Kingdom is vital for the preservation and the protection of the Iraqi heritage," he said. Ancient Mesopotamia — modern-day Iraq — was the cradle of urban civilization, and pre-war Iraq's museums held priceless collections from ...
Among the more than 2.5 million men and women who have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there are many veterans -- exposed to sandstorms, burn pits and other hazards -- who suffer from a mysterious pulmonary illness, as well as the confusion and doubt that surrounds their condition. The NewsHour's Dan Sagalyn...
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